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Civil Rights Test Review Game

Civil Rights Test Review Game. Everyone starts with $20 Each numbered question is worth $5 for the correct answer. Incorrect answer=$0 awarded for that question. Therefore, each player either earns $5 or $0 for each question.

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Civil Rights Test Review Game

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  1. Civil Rights Test Review Game • Everyone starts with $20 • Each numbered question is worth $5 for the correct answer. • Incorrect answer=$0 awarded for that question. Therefore, each player either earns $5 or $0 for each question. • In between each 5 questions is a bonus round. Players will place a wager before seeing the question. Players may not wager more money than they currently possess. • A correct bonus question answer results in the wagered amount being added to the current total. An incorrect answer results in the wagered amount being subtracted from the current total $ amount.

  2. 1) $5 • What nickname did Dr. King give his non-violent civil right movement?

  3. ANSWER • Soul Force

  4. 2) $5 • What Civil Rights organization did Dr. King create to unite African-Americans across the country and teach them how to be non-violent while protesting against discrimination and inequality?

  5. ANSWER • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  6. 3) $5 • What civil rights organization fought for the equality of all races in the court system?

  7. ANSWER • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

  8. 4) $5 • Whose arrest in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 allowed Dr. King to get his first job organizing a bus boycott that lasted just over 1 year?

  9. ANSWER • Rosa Parks

  10. 5) $5 • Name the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was killed in Money, Mississippi for breaking a black code?

  11. ANSWER • Emmett Till

  12. BONUS ROUND: MAKE A WAGER

  13. BONUS QUESTION • What 3 people did Dr. King pattern his non-violent civil disobedience movement after?

  14. BONUS QUESTION ANSWER • Jesus • Gandhi • Henry David Thoreau

  15. 6) $5 • What was the Supreme Court ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy vs. Ferguson that made segregation legal in the U.S. for 60 years? (Hint: 3 words)

  16. ANSWER • Separate, but equal.

  17. 7) $5 • What nickname was given to segregation laws in the south?

  18. ANSWER • Jim Crow laws.

  19. 8) $5 • What Supreme Court case in 1954 ruled that “Separate, but equal” was unconstitutional?

  20. ANSWER • Brown vs. The Board of Education.

  21. 9) $5 • Who was the NAACP lawyer that won the Brown vs. The Board of Education court case and later became the first black member of The Supreme Court?

  22. ANSWER • Thurgood Marshall

  23. 10) $5 • What high school in Little Rock, Arkansas refused to integrate and forced the military to escort 9 African-Americans into the school?

  24. ANSWER • Central High School

  25. BONUS ROUND: MAKE A WAGER

  26. Bonus Question • List 3 voting restrictions that white southerners imposed upon African-Americans to keep them from voting?

  27. BONUS QUESTION ANSWER • Literacy Tests • Grandfather Clause • Poll Taxes.

  28. 11) $5 • The goal of the sit-ins was to “Fill the _______.”

  29. ANSWER • Jails

  30. 12) $5 • Name the group that protested against segregation on Interstate buses.

  31. ANSWER • The Freedom Riders

  32. 13) $5 • James Meredith required military troops to escort him into this southern university after Governor Wallace disobeyed a Supreme Court order and refused to let him in?

  33. ANSWER • Ole Miss University

  34. 14) $5 • At what national monument did Dr. King deliver his famous “I Have A Dream” speech?

  35. ANSWER • Lincoln Memorial

  36. 15) $5 • Who shot and killed Dr. King in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968?

  37. ANSWER • James Earl Ray

  38. BONUS ROUND: MAKE A WAGER

  39. Bonus Question • What does the acronym SNCC stand for?

  40. Bonus Round Answer • The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

  41. 16) $5 • Who converted Malcolm X to the Black Muslims (Nation of Islam)?

  42. ANSWER • Elijah Muhhamed

  43. 17) $5 • What slogan did Stokely Carmichael coin?

  44. ANSWER • Black Power!

  45. 18) $5 • What did Malcolm X begin teaching after returning from his trip to Mecca?

  46. ANSWER • Ballots or Bullets

  47. 19) $5 • The Black Panthers were created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. What was the slogan they borrowed from the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong?

  48. ANSWER • Power flows out of the barrel of a gun!

  49. 20) $5 • What current government quota system was implemented in the 1960’s to provide greater opportunities for minorities? Hint: Many white people consider it to be reverse discrimination.

  50. ANSWER • Affirmative Action

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